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OREGON
VOL. XIV.
ST. HELENS, OKEGON, EIIIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1897.
NO. 39.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all . Parts of the New
and Old World.
IIUIEP AND INTERESTING ITEMS
Comprehensive llevlew of the Import
ant Happening of the Cur
rent Week.
A terrible explosion of nitroglycerins
occurred In Cygnet, O., resulting in tht
(loath of nix person and the injury of
largo number.
It it wild that John W. Msoksy, the
American millionaire, will lay Cuna
dlnn I'acltla cable from Vancouver, B.
U, to Australia. ;
Count Okuros, of Japan, has notified
his minister at Honolulu of the terms
nd condition! of Japan's acceptance of
the proposal to Arbitrate the dUputs
with Hawaii.
A New York Herald special front
Barcelona says that it ia atatod on the
highest diplomatic1 anthorlty that the
present Spanish government will go
out within a fortnight, aim tfiat the
liberals will come In.
Customs Inspectors nt Laredo, Tex.,
have found an unclaimed grip on a
train, containing 1300,000 worth of
diamond, jewelry and other valuables.
The paperi In the valiae indicate that
It belonged to a Spanish officer. It I
believed it wa stolon by a man who
lacked the courage to claim ownership.
W. P. Atwoll, commercial agent of
the united States at liobaix, Fiance.
sends to the itate department a report
on the abort wheat crop in Franco.
He says the crop In France, and in fart
all Europe, ban fallen much Itnlow the
average, and that it ia estimated that
the United State and Canada will be
called upon to export from 130,000,000
to 180,000,000 bushels more than they
exported to Euro) last year. France
will require about 60,000,000 bushels
to meet the deficit in that country.
A Portland company has offered to
build a sugar beet factory in La
Grands. ,
U. J. Laysoll was killed and Claude
Hawthorne severely injured by a tire
on launch in Astoria, Or.
Fall! Company, '' manufacturers of
cotton goods, In Norwich, Conn., have
started op on full time, giving employ
ment to 600 hands.
The New Orleans health authorities
have lent out notice of a death by yel
low few In that city. Quarantine has
been declared by aeveral Southern
cities.
A rich striko is reported in the
Schroder mine, in Yreka, Cal., on the
1,900-foot level, the vein avoragiivi
four feet in width, and running $180 to
the ton.
Edward Lyons, a patient at the Ore
gon atate Insane asylum hung iiimaelf
to treo in the asylum grounds. He
waa committed from Multnomah county
last March.
In the Mllford labor anion, at Its
game In Milford, Mans., II. 8. Dono
van, of Natick, ran 100 yards in 9H
seconds, breaking the world's record by
one-tenth of second, according to the
timekeepers.
George W. Clark broke the world's
Llgh-dive record by jumping off the.
railing of the Halatead-streot life bridge j
in Chicago, when the structure was
raised to an elevation of 105 feet above
the Chicago river. The diver was
taken out of the river uninjured, and
Waa placed under arrest by the police.
The Washington Star says: It Is
stated that 8. D. North, of Boston, has
been selected as superintendent of the
next census, and that his appointment
will be made as soon as neocssary legis
lation can be enacted. . The president
is aald to favor the establishment of
permanent bureau on census, and Is
likely to express some views on that
subject in his next message to congress.
Wild horses have become a nulsanoe
In Northern Arizona, and Attorny
General Fraaior has been aaked if they
may not be legally slaughtered. That
vlciuity haa been overrun by several
large bands, hundreds in number, un
bonded and unclaimed by any one.
They have rapidly increased in number
nd have become wilder than deer and
vicious as well. The matter has been
referred to the livestock board.
A Phoenix, Aria., dispatch says it 1 1
expected that work will be resumed
within 80 days on the great Eio Verde
irrigation enterprise which is to redeem
800,000 sores of the finest land in the
Bait river valley. Of the 150 miles of
canals that will constitute the Rio
Verde irrigation system, 32 have hi en
dug. "d a large amount of work, coat
ing altogether $300,000, hai been done
at and near the beadworks. ' .
"We are on the verge of a gront min
ing era," remarked Clarenoe King,
former chief of the United States geo
logical survey, in Denver. "The time
is not far distant when a man can start
out of Denver and travel to Klondike,
topping every night at a mining camp.
Already two American stamp mills are
pounding away on the border of the
Straits of Magellan, and the day is ap
proacihng when chain of mining
cam pa will extend from Cape Horn to
St. Michael!."
A Philadelphia & Beading wrecking
engine crashed into a wagon at a grade
crossing at Frush Valley, a few miles
above Beading, Pa., and three lives
were loat.
The Marquis of Salisbury'! proposal
for the constitution of an international
commitee representing the six powers
to assume control of the revenues, with
which Greece will guarantee the pay
ment of Interest for holders on old
bonds as well as payment of the indem
nity loan, ha been aooepted by the
powers,
THE STRIKE SETTLED.
Miliars Aeeept the Proposition of Pitts.
' burg Operators.
Columbus, O., Sept J 4. The great
miners' strike, which was declared on
July 4, was brought to an end this
evening, so far, at leant, a! Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and West
Virginia are concerned, by the action
of the convention of miners which has
been in session since Wednesday. After
a tiny of voting and wrangling, the con'
vent ion voted to accept the proposition
of the Pitttfburg operators. The vote
was 496 for and 817 against accepting
the terms of settlement, and 1 1 vote!
were not cast. The delegates from 11
linols, who had 800 votes, were unani
mously against the settlement; Indiana
and West Virginia voted solidly to ac
cept the projioaitlon, but there were
scattering votes among Ohio and Penn
sylvania against it. The resolution is
as follows:
"Kosolved, That we, the miners of
Pennsylvania, Heat Virginia, Ohio, In
dluna and Illinois, in oomention assem
bled, do hereby agree to accept the
proposition recommended by our na
tionat executive council, vis , 68 oetits
in Pittsburg district and all places in
the above-named state where a relative
price can lie obtained, to resume work
and contribute liberally to the miners
who will not receive the advance, over
which the fight wuat be continued to
bitter end.
"Resolved, That the national officers
of the executive board and distriot
presidents act as an advlaory board for
the purpose of providing ways and
means for the carrying on of the strike
where necessary; provided, however,
that no district resume work for 10
dnys, for the purpose of giving miners
in other diatricts time to confer with
the operators and get the price, if pos
sible." The Illinois men will be called in
convention at Springfield, September 10,
to determine what shall bo. done in
that state.
A resolution was adopted denouncing
the action of the deputies In firing into
the striking miners at Hazelton.
LIVES CRUSHED OUT.
His Victim, of a Truln-Wreek In the
Indian Territory.
Memphis, Sept 14. A special to the
Commercial-Appeal from Hanburn,
Ark., says: A moat disastrous freight
wieck occurred on the Iron Mountain
railroad, at Hanson, I. T., a small sta
tion SO miles west of Van Buren, at 3
o'clock today, resulting in the death of
seven men and the serious injury of
is others, two of whom will die. The
dead are: Will Frame, Charles Frame,
Douglas! Anderson, John Johnson, Bose
Henderson, Frank Hamilton and II. A.
Walton. . ....
"Of the wounded two suffered inter
nal injuries. All of the dead and
wounded were sent to Vian, with the
exception of Walton's body, it being
brought to this place, where he haa rel
atives living. None of the trainmen
were hurt
While the train was runhing at a
speed of SO miles an hour, the forward
trucks of one of the cars near the en
gine broke, wrecking 15 cars with wal
nuts and baled hay. With the excep
tion of two oars in front and three in
the rear, including the oalioose, every
car of the SO in the train was ditched.
The middle of the train was a oar load
ed with heavy maohinery, and it waa
in this our that 18 men were stealing a
ride. The occupants of the wrecked car
Were a party of men and boys living in
Vian, who were coming to Van Buren
to And employment in the cotton holds.
When the machinery car left the rails,
it fell on its side, nearly all of the men
being caught by the heavy beams.
ir.i.,,1 Pit Snnt 14. A aneclal to
tl.o TiinM frnm Hanbnrn. Ark., aavs:
Many sad scenes were enacted at Man-
son, ' One of the dead, whose name is
unknown, was found with bis head
mashed to a pulp between two heavy
logs, his brains ooaing out Others
were crushed and mangled in a horrible
manner. Two of the dead were brothers,
Will and Charles Frame. Will was
found on one side of the track and
Charles oil the other, both crushed al
pioat out of nil semblance of human
beings, '''
The scenes at Vian, when the dead
bodies of those who had resided there
arrived, wpre affecting in the extreme.
The parents and other kin of the de
ceased were at the depot when the train
came in. It will probably be several
days before the wreck will be cleared
away and the full extent of the dis
aster revealed. " Three men are still
missing, aocroding to statements of
some of those who esooped. A large
force of men is at the spot, clearing
away the wreckage.
Quarantine Ieelnred.
Nashville, Sept. 14. Today, the
state board of health issued quarantine
orders against all poftits along the gulf
coast, extending from Mobile to New
Orleans. This was done as a measure
of extra oaution, because of the receipt
of unfavorable reports from the gulf
coast.
Memphis, Sept. 14. The board of
health of this city today issued a proc
lamation enforcing a strict quarantine
agaiiiBt New Orleans, Ocean Springs,
Mobile and other towns on the gulf
coaat. ' " ' ' '' - :
rresldont Ulan Meeenge.
Mexico, Sept. 14. It Is not believed
that the president will in his message
announoe any radical change in the pub
lio policy. The manufacturing and
agricultural interests are unanimously
In favor of the Bilvor standard. """
The Guatemala Revolution.
uoriiu, - l ----- .
Guatemala say revolution has broken ,
out against rreaiuem jinmvo
western part of the republic I
FATE OFTUE ANDERSON
Reported That She Went
Down With All Hands.
NEWS HEARD AT MARY'S ISLAND
The Steamer Carried 1J FaMengers
. Irrom Seattle, Bound for
the Klondike.
Seattle, Sept. 14. Another story of
the wreck of the Eliza Anderson reached
thli city today. It came on the steamer
George E. Starr. Captain Harry Struve,
one of the beat-known men in Seattle,
was a passenger on the Starr from Skag
uay bay. At Mary's island he was told
by the oustoms officers there that a
schooner had touched that port from
Kodlak island, reporting that the Eliza
Anderson was wrecked in the vicinity of
Kodlak, with all hands lost. The
steamer carried 125 passengers from
Seattle for St. Michaels.
Captain Strove did not learn the
name of the schooner which brought the
news. The statement was made by
the customs offloer with apparent con
fidence ih its truth. .
The Anderson was last seen by the
tug Holyoke near Kodiak island. She
was headed that way for fuel, and to ,
get out of the way of the furious gale
that was blowing from the southeast
While the story told Captain Strove
may not establsh the fact of the An
derson's wreck, it gives rise to grave
fears for her safety.
NEW KLONDIKE DIGGINGS.
Sulphur Creek the Scene of the Latest
Excitement.
Seattle, Sept 14. Sulphur creek, a
branch of Dominion creek, which is a
tributary to the Indian river, is the
scene of the latest great excitement in
the Klondike. From accounts of the
new district brought down on the
South Coast, it seems that the new dig
gings will rival even the famed Bonanza
and Eldorado. Gold was found just
below the surface running $34 to the
pan. Two men took out $300 in a day
in simply prospecting their claims.
A stampede followed the reports of the
new finds, which reached Dawson City,
August 15. In a week 500 men had
crossed the mountains between Eldorado
creek and Dominion creek. They
traveled day and night, and In two
weeks the whole stream waa staked out.
The first authentio story of Sulphur
creek was given today by John E.
Light, of Chicago. He left Dawson
City on the steamer Bella, August 18.
He owns a claim on Sulphur creek
which he located himself. He says:
"Sulhpur creek will equal Bonanza.
T,ere is no doubt about it When I
first heard of the strike there, I went
over the mountain to investigate it
myself. I spent one day there with
two brothers, the MtKinnon boys, of
Wellington, B. C. I saw them take .
out $300 in one day from simply sink- ,
ing two prospect holes. The formation i
is the same as at Eldorado creek, and
Sulphur creeks bears the same relation
to Dominion as does Ellorado to Bo
nanza. The streams empty into In
dian river. They are just acrots the
divide from the Klondike, and the same
process that brought millions in gold
into the beds of Bonanza and Eldorado
creeks deposited as much wealth in Sul
phur and Dominion.
"One old German, whose name l out
not learn, located the creek, and from
Discovery claim he took out $80 to the
pan. Of course, when the news of the
new strike reached Daweon there was a
great stampede, and hundreds left the
Klondike for Dominion creek. It is all
staked out now. Mark my words, you
will hear of big strikes there."
A WOMAN'S STORY.
Mrs. Hendenoa Telle Golden Stories of
the Klondike.
TiMimi. Rnnt. 14. Mrs. E. A. Hen-
dnrann thn first nawsnarjer oorresnond-
ent to make the trip to Dawson City,
returned on tne steamer uieveiana irora
St. Michaels, and is visiting friends in
this city. With her little 8-year old
daughtor she spent some months in the
mining dietrlots, and gives the Ledger
some interesting experiences in the far
north..
She . confirms the report of the find
ing of a $583.25 nugget, the largest yet
discovered in the Yukon country,
which Nick Knutaon picked up on No,
8. Eldorado, and is bringing to San
Francisco on the Exoelsior. When the
Excelsior with its reported, but prob
ably exaggerated, cargo of nearly $1,
000,000 in dust, readies San Fran
cisco, she believes the fever will prob
ably reaoh its height
"Yet." said Mr. Henderson, "tne
excitement is all on the outside. In
the Klondike country, even this huge
nugget, whioh is as large as your hand
and almost a perfeot hatohot-head
shape and seemingly pure gold, did not
greatly excite the miners. ,
"I have been np tne xuxon ait sum
mer. From Apirl to June i, tour men
tnnlr nnt from No. 18. Eldorado, from
but a small part of the claim, a strip
only 85x70 feet, $43,038, and have re
cently sold the olaim for $45,000. This
u fnr the hltrhest amount sot out
of a Klondike mine nearly $90,000.
"I am asked scores of times, 'Is the
Klondike country as rich as reported?'
I was prepared to say, 'It oan Boarcely
be exaggerated,' but since then I have
seen newspapers, and I reply more cau
tiously. In several papers I saw the
statement that somebody had seen 'five
five-gallon ooal oil cans filled with gold
in one winter.' No one in that coun
try ever heard of suoh a cabin. The
truth is, I lifted less than $18,000 of
dust in a granite bowl with difficulty.
Gold is heavy to bear in more senses
than one.
MOWED DOWN.
Hasletan
Strikers Are Shot
Like
. Many Sheep. ".
Hazelton, Pa., Sept. 18. The strike
situation reached a terrible crisis on,
the outskirts of Latimer this afternoon,
when a band of deptuy sheriffs fired
into a mob of miners. The men fell
like so many sheep, and the excitement
has been so intense that no accurate
figures of the dead and wounded can be
obtaind. Iteports run from 15 to 30
killed and 40 or more wonnded. .
One man who reached the scene to
night counted 18 corpses. Four other
bodies lay In the mountains between
Latimer and Harleigh. Those who
were uninjured carried their dead and
wounded friends into the woods. Esti
mates are baffling.
Three bodies were found tonight on
the road near Latimer.
The strikers left Hazelton about 8:80
o'clock this ' afternoon, and it was
their intention to go to Latimer. As
soon as this became known, a band of
deputies was loaded on a trolley car and
went whirling across the mountain im
the scene, where the bloody conflict
followed. -
After reaching Latimer, they left the
car and formed into three companies,
under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hess and
Samuel B. Sercy. They drew up in line
at the edge of the village, with a fence
and a line of houses in their rear.
Sheriff Martin was in entire command
and stood in the front of the line until
the strikers approached. They were
seen coming across the ridge, and Mar
tin went out to ret them. The men
drew up sullenly and listened in silence
until he bod once more read the riot
BOt"
This finished, a low muttering arose
among the foreigners, and there was a
slight movement forward. Perceiving
this the sheriff stepped toward them
and forbade them to advance. Some
one struck the sheriff, and the next
moment the command was given to the
deputies to fire. ' 4
The guns of the deputies instantly
belohed forth a terrible volley. The
report seemed ,to Bhake the very moun
tains, and a cry of dismay went up
from the people.
The strikers were taken entirely by
surprise, and as the men fell ever each
other, these who remained unhurt
stampeded. The men went down be
fore the Btorm of bullets like tebpins,
and the groans of the dying and wound
ed filled the air.
Tiie scene that followed was simply
indescribable. The deputies seemed to
be terror-stricken at the deadly execu
tion of their guns, and seeing the liv
ing strikers fleeing like wild men and
Others dropping to the earth, they went
to the aid of the unfortunates whom
they had bronght down.
The people of Latimer ruhsed pell
mell to the scene, but the shrieks of the
wounded drowned the cries of the sym
pathizing and half-crazed inhabitants.
A reporter who soon afterwards
reached the scene found the road lead
ing to Latimer filled with groups of
frightened Hungarians. Some sur
rounded dying companions, and others,
fearful of pursuit, clung to the new
comer and begged his protection.
At Farley's hotel were two men lying
on the porch. Both had been shot in
the head. One had three bullets in the
thigh. His groans and appeals for a
doctor were heartrending.
All along the rood the wounded men
who were able to leave the field of bat
tle scattered themselves and sought the
shade of trees for protection, but there
was no need of that then.
Approaching the place where the
shooting occurred, people were met
wringing their hands and bemoaning
the catastrophe. " they could not talk
Intelligently, and it was with the great
est difficulty that information could be
gleaned.
All along the bank of the trolley
road men lay in every position, some
dead, others dying. Three bodies, face
downward, lay along the Incline, while
others were but a Bhort distance away.
On the other side of the road as many
bodiea lay. The schoolhouse was trans
formed into a temporary hospital and
some of the wounded were taken there.
The colliery ambulance was sum
moned to the place as soon as possible,
and upon its arrival, two men, hot'
shot through the legs, were loaded in
the wagon. All along the hillsiiu
wounded men were found, on the road
side and in the fields. Many miners
who had been carried to distances oould
not be found.
Aa eoon as the news of the shooting
reached Hazelton, there was consterna
tion. Within 10 minutes, the streets
were blocked with excited people. The
Lehigh Traction Company immediately
started a number of extra cars on the
Latimer line, and doctors and clergy
men responded promptly. :. ;
During the excitement, the deputies
turned their attention to the wounded,
and carried many of them to places
where they oould be more comfortably
treated. .
. Martin Boski, an intelligent Hun
garian from Mount Pleasant, who was
shot in the arm, was seen by a reporter,
nd gave this version of the affair:
"We were going along the road to
Latimer, and the deputies were lined
across the road, barring our passage.
We tried to go through them, and did
not attempt to hit or molest them.when.
they fired upon us. We ran, but they
kept on shooting at us while we ran.
It is all their fault" ,
Citizens' meetings were held at vari
ous parts of the city tonight. Opinion
was divided about the responaibilty for
the shooting. At one meeting held in
Van Wyokle's casino, attended by bank
ers, coal operators and prominent men,
resolutions were adopted calling on
Governor Hastings to send militia here.
At another mass meeting, attended by
thousands of people, the sentiment was
against bringing the troops here, and it
Is asserted by these that there will be
no real necessity for having deputies
kept here.
SERIOUS TRAIN WRECK
Caused by the Disobedience
of Orders.
FORTY PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVES
Passenger Collided With Stock Train
Menr Denver Damaging Both
Greatljr Kmporln Wreck.
Denver, Sept 18. A special to the
News from New Castle, Colo., says:
Rio Grande passenger train No. 1, run
ning one hour late, collided with a Col
orado Midland stock extra, miles
west of New Castle. Both engines are
total wreck.
There are In all probability 40
human beings in the burning mass.
Shortly after the collision occurred
the baggage,- day coach and tourist
sleeper caught fire, while one Pullman
and a special car from the Hannibal &
St Joseph railroad remained on the
track. ":
; The fault is said to lie with the train
crew of the extra.
Details of the wreck are hard to ob
tain. It 1b known that A. Hartman
and wife and two children, of Harahon,
111., are among the dead; Engineer
Gordon, of the passenger train; R. H.
Bed ley, postal olerk, and .Robert How
lett, passenger fireman, are fatally in
jured. Engineer Ostrander and Fire
man Sutliff, are missing, and are be
lieved to be buried in the wreck.
So thoroughly are the trains demol
ished that but few of those caught es
caped alive, those not killed by the
shock of the collision being burned to.
death in the ruins of the cars.
A Bio Grande special, just arrived
from Glenwood, brings doctors and
comforts for the wounded.
The wreck occurred on what is called
the Bio Junction road. This runs from
New Castle to Grand Junction. It be
longs jointly to the Denver & Bio
Grande and the Colorado Midland, be
ing used by both roads.
Two oars of stock were completely
demolished, and the right of way ia
strewn with dead stock and debris. .
Conductor Barbank'a explanation of
the wreck is that in looking at the
passenger's leaving time on the card he
looked at the wrong column of figures.
Two Italians caught in the act of rob
bing trunks have been placed nnder
arreat
The latest information from the
wreck makes it almost certain that 25
persona are dead, and s dozen badly in
jured, fully half of whom will die.
THE EMPORIA WRECK.
Farther Details of the Accident In
. Knneu. '
Emporia, Kan., Sept 13. Twelve
known dead, one missing (probably
inoinerated) and 14 injured, two of
whom will likely die, is the record of
the terrible head-end collision on the
Santa Fe, as known tonight It is not
positively known that the list given is
complete, and it is believed that several
were burned to death and nothing left
by which they could be recognised.
The bodies of 11 have been taken from
the debris, three burned beyond recog
nition. Nothing oould be found of the re
mains of the Wells-Fargo messenger,
J. F. Sauer. A handful of charred
bones taken from the wreck, however,
are supposed to be his. Near them
was found his watch.
Human ghouls delved in the burning
wreckage and plundered the baggage
and mail sacks whioh strewed the
ground. One man tried to snatch a
diamond from the breast of an Emporia
doctor who, weak and nervous, was
creeping slowly out of the debris. He
had strength enough left to hit the
brute blow in the faoe, whioh made
him turn with a curse and sneak away.
Mail saoks were dragged into the corn
field and rifled.
The report of the Kansas City post
office is that practically all of the mail
on both the wrecked Santa Fe trains
was destroyed. One pouch, however,
for Southern California, on the west
bound train, is said to have been saved.
This train oarried a large mail from
New York city to California. Colorado,
New Mexico and Arizona. No official
report has been received here.
Trains over the Santa Fe will be run
by way of Ottawa for a few days. The
cost of the wreck to the railway is esti
mated at $100,000.
Aa the passengers and trainmen re
covered from the shock of the explosion,
they looked for the injured and dead.
Far down in the heaps of debris sound
ed wailing voices of men pleading for
aid. While the rescuers were working
to get at the unfortunates, fire broke out
in the wreckage of the forward ooaohes,
and a cry for water went up. Water
tanks were torn from their fastenings
in the ooaohes that oould be entered,
and blood-besmeared men carried them
over broken timbers to quench the fast
spreading flames. ' The dead and
mangled bodies of four viotims were
dragged to the grass beside the track.
After herculean efforts, the flames were
finally subdued, and the work of rescue
made more easy. - ' ',:
A merchant in Copenhagen was fined
10 crowns for having used the American
flag as an advertising medium.
Explorer Wellmnn Keturne.
New York, Sept 9. Walter Well
man, the journalist and Arctic explorer,
was one of the passengers on the New
York, which arrived today. He has
been to Norway and Russia to consult
with Dr. Nansen to arrange for a
steamer and a large number of dogs.
He said efforts would be made to reach
the north pole until the feat was ac
oompliBhed. Russians make a pleasant drink from
sap of the walnut
DISTRESS AT DAWSON.
Terrible Tnle of Suffering Bronght From
Klondike by the Clevelnnd.
San Francisco, Sept. 18. The Ex
aminer prints an extra edition contain
ing the following news from Dawson
City: . '
"Otter Point, B. C, Sept. 18. The
steamer Cleveland haa arrived from St
Michaels,' bringing with her from the
Yukon gold fields a story of distre'l
and disaster, : The miners she has on
board and officers in charge of the
ship tell a stroy of disorder and dis
tress at Dawson.
Winter has set in at the mining city
of the frozen north, and the two great
stores of the place have closed their
doors, for they have nothing to sell.
Those who have been seeking gold must
now seek for food or starve.
- While there may be a tendency to
exaggerate the actual conditions of
affairs, there can be no question that
famine threatens all the venturesome
men and women who made their way
to the Klondike.
Hundreds of nnruly spirits are flock
ing to Dawson. Threats of violence are
being made on every side.
Enormous prices are now being paid
for food at Dawson, and it is impos
sible that more than four vessels with
provisions oan reach that camp before
the river freezes.
Indignation meetings, heavy with
murmured threats of vengeance, have
been held at St Michaels by those who
see no hope of advancing np the river,
and less of getting back to civilization.
T3 first signs of winter are apparent
on the river Yukon, which is begin
ning to freeze, and in a few weeks will
be closed against all navigation. : A
mishap has come to the Excelsior, and
from the frozen north comes the story
of another disaster in which 43 men
lost their lives. ,
On the Cleveland there are 88 pas
sengers who have come from Dawson
City. There are few miners in this
party that are able to tell of prosperity.
Most of them wish to exaggerate their
possessions, and it one were to believe
the indefinite stories they tell he
would say the treasure ship with
which they come carried $5,000,OCO.
Captain Hall, of the Cleveland, says he
has $100,000 in his safe. The purser be
lieves he can account for $150,000 on
board. I
The Cleveland left St Micbaela
August 29. She has some of the pas
sengers of the P. B. Weare on board.
The Weare left Dawson City in time to
connect with the Portland had she not
met with a mishap and stuck on the
flats above Circle City.
The miners from Dawson report that
on July 25 the stores of the Alaska
Commercial Company and the North
American Trading & Transportation
Company closed their doors, and an
nounced they bad no more food to sell.
When the announcement was made oont
sternation seized upon the people of
Dawson, with gold-seekers crowding in
at the rate of 20 to 30 per day. Drunk
enne.s and disorder, gambling and
Idleness were rampant
At St Michaels the condition of
affairs is also the cause of gravest con
cern. There are not enough structures
in town to accommodate the crowd,
and scores of the people are living in
tents. Shortly before .the Cleveland
left St. Michaels two expeditions, those
of the National City and of the South
Coast, held indignation meetings,
threatening dire vengeance upon those
who had brought them there and then
were unable to carry them further.
On August 86 the Excelsior left St
Michaels with a large number of min
ers and large quantity of gold. Re
ports were current that her treasure
amounted to a million dollars. . Soon
after leaving St. Michaels the Excelsior
was caught on the dangerous flats of
the Yukon and broke two blades of her
propeller. When the Cleveland reached
Ounalaaka she found the Excelsior un
dergoing repairs. It is probable Bhe
left Ounalaska last Monday.
Shortly before the Cleveland left fcr
Seattle on her journey borne the Unitfd
Sttes revenue cutter Bear put i:i(o
St. Michaels to tell another story of
death and disaster in the ioe-bound
Arctic The Bear had on board Cap
tain Whiteside, his wife, the first and
fourth officers and four seamen of tli
ateam whaler Nevaoh. They , are
that remain to tell a terrible story o.
death in an ice pack. Of her crew 42
were lost Thirty-one were crushed in
the ice and ten frozen to death. The
Bear saw the vessel's signals of distress
near Point Barrow, and went to her
assistance. The captain, his wife, two
officers and four seamen were persuaded
to leave the crippled ship, but nine
others positively refused to go. They
were left on a desolate field of ice, and
it is feared perished with their comrades.
; The terrible tale of suffering told by
Captain Whitesides and his officers
forms but an incident in the story that
the Cleveland brings. It was believed
after she had left St. Michaels she was
to learn' no more of the Klondike, its
dangers jind disasters, but the Cleve
land had hardly gone 85 mies when she
passed a vessel that told of evils to
come, of dangerous spirits ready for
any outrage, of exoited and angry men
who have left a blaok record on the
coast on their own pathway to the
Yukon. '
The Cleveland and Humboldt had
met, and new stories of the abandoned
adventurers the latter vessel la convey
ing to the gold fields were sent back to
the world.
When the Humboldt stopped at Oun
alaska on her journey to St Michaels,
the passengers were in open rebellion.
They began to realize that it would be
impossible to reach Dawson before next
Bpring, and they knew that misery
awaited them at St. Michaels. There
were open threats against W. D. Wood,
organizer and manager of the expedi
tion, and it is feared he may lose his
life st the hands of his passengers.
The new Yerkes telescope brings the
moon within about 200 miles.
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS 07 GENERAL INTEREST
from ATI the Cities and Towns ft
' the Thriving SUter St tee '
Oregon .
During the week ending September
4, $1,823.33 was paid out on money
orders by the Salem postofflce.
The revenue of the city of Astoria
will fall short this year on fines snd
forfeitures at least $7,000, and prob
ably more.
The Beaver Hill Coal Company, in
Coos county, has received a diamond
drill that will be used in prospecting
its properties.
Everything at the cannery in Marsh
field is running smoothly, and the
quality of the fish is good. The man
agement claims to be able to put np 700
cases a day.
A Scnttsborg farmer thinks he has
some tall corn on his farm. He says
there is one stalk 13 feet inches high,
pne; 10 feet 2 inches, and two that grow
up 10 feet
Sheepmen of Gilliam county say that
the grass is drying up pretty fast in the
mountains and that the sheep will be
taken to their home range earlier than
usual this season. ;
The fall run of beshows, or coal fish,
has arrived in Coos bay, and large
joBntities ,ire 'ieing caught with hooks
ind Unes off '.he cannery wharf. Some
people consider these fish nearly as
good as mackerel.
The Brownsville Woolen Mills are so
crowded with orders for goods that the
machinery is kept humming from daj
light until dark, and some of it day and
night, says the Brownsville Times.
Last week the wages of employes were
advanced 5 percent. ,
The cannery at Marshfield rari short
on cans last week, and had to stop the
receipt of flsh for one day, but is now
in' operation, and is canning all the
fish received. Superintendent Flye
says thut they are now able to take care
of 2,000 chinooks a day.
A placer mining company operating
on the Baker county side of Powder
river, one and one-half miles from its
mouth, has a floating flume a quarter
of a mile long, three feet wide and a
foot deep, and a few men there are
getting big paying results.
The Vale Advocate says that in the
canyon of the Malheur there is a small
active animal unlike anything described
in the natural histories. By people
living on the Malheur it is called a
"rocket cat," although it is very un
like the common stubtail wild cat, of
which there are many in the country.
A resident of the Helix country, in
Umatilla county, takes the palm so far
this season for growing the largest yield
of barley per acre. His barley turned
out 70 bushels per acre, and his wheat
crop went above 40 bushels. He sold
his wheat crop for better than 75 cents,
and he is in excellent humor io conse
quence. A savage boar attacked two horses
pastured on the Bellfountain fruit farm,
Benton county, last week, killing
one and maiming the j other. The
horses belonged to men working for the
Green Peak Fruit Company. Later,
the owner of the hog removed its tusks
and penned it up. When next he
visited it he founl the animal dead.
Washington.
Three inches of snow fell on the
Wenatchee summit one night last week.
The B'hingle mill at Oooeta haa been
started, giving employment to over 20
men. . ..
: There are not enough loggers and mill
hands in the Gray's harbor country to
supply the demand.
A. C. Little, state fish commissioner, .
hopes to have the fish hatchery on the
Chehalis river ready for the fall rnn of
steelheads. , '
Improvements now being mode at the
warehouse, in Wilbur will raise the
total storage capacity for grain at that
place to 180,000 bushels.
State Dairy Commissioner McDonald
warns owners ot cows to look out for
tuberculosis and lumpy jaw. Several
cases of lumpy jaW have recently beon
reported from Pierce and King counties,
and a cow suffering from tuberculosis
was killed near Fern hill, not far from
Tacoma, recently, by the commissioner.
The Indians on the Yakima reserva
tion complain that some of the squaw
men who used to be employed in doing
the threshing on the reservation have
revenged themselves, because of the
employment of a ateam thresher, by
putting barb wire into the bundles of
grain, thereby wrecking the cylinder of
the thresher.
A detachment of Uncle Sam's regular
army, from the Vancouver barracks,
consisting of two lieutenants, a corporal
and four privates, with a complete
camping equipment, has been to camp
in Clallam county surveying and mak
ing maps of the roads in that vicinity.
While there are six horses and mules
in the outfit, two of the officers use"
bicycles, and say that they are far
superior to horses for such work.
A movement is on foot in Colville
for the purpose of raising funds with
which to build a new courthouse. Lib
eral donations of material are offered,
and about all the money that will ba
required will be that necessary to pay
for the labor. '." ,
The ceremonies attending the dedica
ting and unveiling of the Whitman
monument in Walla Walla will occur
November 29, as that will be the 50; h
annlversay of Whitman's death. The
total cost of the monument, includes
lbs inclosurea, will be P,10